I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years...
[For] decades, researchers have told us that the link between cataclysm and social disintegration is a myth perpetuated by movies, fiction, and misguided journalism. In fact, in case after case, the o...
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
And so the Steppenwolf had two natures, a human and a wolfish one. This was his fate, and it may well be that it was not a very exceptional one. There must have been many men who have had a good deal...
Although there are certain needs, such as hunger, thirst, sex, which are common to man, those drives which make for the differences in men's characters, like love and hatred, the lust for power and th...
We've all got our own brand of crazy.
We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
Distance reflects the true intensity of the relationship.. Some people come too close & Some forgets that u exist too..
The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you most.
That, in my opinion, was the most diabolical aspect of those old time big brains. They would tell their owners, in effect, 'Here is a crazy thing we could actually do, probably, but we would never do...
People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.
Polarization breeds respect.
Live according to Nature, runs the maxim of the West; but according to what nature, the nature of the body or the nature which exceeds the body? This first we ought to determine.
My God, these folks don't know how to love -- that's why they love so easily.
Really to believe in human nature while striving to know the thousand forces that warp it from its ideal development-to call for and expect much from men and women, and not to be disappointed and embi...
A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.
[...] she understood that nothing is less obvious in a man than that which seems unquestionable.
I reflected that it seemed to be in the nature of human beings to spend the first part of their lives mocking the cliches and conventions of their elders and the final part mocking the cliches and con...
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.